Comments on: Finding Fernando

By: Lily

Lily — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:40:52 +0000

Hi Lesley. Thanks for your comment. That’s great you are rediscovering Portugal and Portuguese!

By: Lesley

Lesley — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:34:57 +0000

Lily -
I quote from Finding Fernando:

“I accepted that twenty years of my life had passed in a blink of an eye and that I too was getting older. I realised that I still had time to embrace what was to come. ”

I would not change the past 15 years of my life, but I had rather lost myself in being wife and mother and had forgotten to feed my soul. This past year I have begun to remember the dreaming girl I was and am glad to know that you believe we still have time.

I grew up in a Canadian city with a very large Portuguese immigrant community, and I loved to visit that part of the city when I was young. This year I rediscovered my love of the country and the song of the language, and have begun to learn to speak it.

Your story made my heart warm. Thank you.

Lesley

By: Lily

Lily — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:56:00 +0000

Hi Catarina
Thanks so much for your lovely comment. I think I must have lived another life there

By: catarina

catarina — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:46:46 +0000

Dear Lily,
found your video on You Tube reciting the Portuguese alphabet.
Then proceeded to your website.
You truly have a Portuguese soul, if I may say so.
You comprehend “saudade”
being a Luso-canadian, I appreciate my ethnic background.
My dad always says I am more Portuguese than native-born Portuguese.
Obrigado pela sua carinho da cultura Portuguesa.
um abraco
Da. Catarina

By: Lily

Lily — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:00:18 +0000

Hi Ajay
Thankyou so much for your lovely comment. I’m glad you enjoyed your visit here x

By: Ajay

Ajay — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:52:21 +0000

I found your blog from your sig on the Pavlina forum

Your open-hearted spirit is something I admire and am inspired by

Thank you for sharing this

By: Lily

Lily — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:28:22 +0000

Thanks – glad you enjoyed your visit x

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I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….

By: Lily

Lily — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:37:44 +0000

Olá Fernando
Muitos obrigada
It is lovely to meet another Fernando!
Thankyou so much for your comments and also for your post on your blog. Your English is very good! I think it is very true to say that the Portuguese have a great soul – that has certainly been my experience
I promise one day I shall visit Porto as well – I hear it is also a lovely city.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:34:29 +0000

I’m delighted to find this space in blogosphere. I came here from my site because, may be randomly, you visited it. I would like to say you write wonderfully and you can be sure my opinion doesn’t depend of the fact you like my country. Of course I’m proud to live in a country which can offer the things that you speak in this post.
I’m Portuguese and I know that my English doesn’t allow to describe well what I feel reading your posts, because I don’t speak very well in English.

Nowadays, Portuguese people is crossing some bad times because the economy isn’t running well. Government needs to control the public budget deficit, so the tax are hight and some recent public decision have affected the life of great proportion of people. Portugal is a litlle country…

However, I’m glad because we are a sensitive people with great soul and litle things are yet enough to put us well with the life.

Thanks a lot … I promise I will return back here .

Oh one more thing … My name is (also) Fernando … lol…

Receive smiles, flowers … and poetry,

from Porto, Portugal
Fernando